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No Longer at Ease

By: Achebe, Chinua

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 1994

Seller ID: 99199

ISBN: 0385474555

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy

When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. No Longer at Ease, the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe's The African Trilogy, depicts the uncertainties that beset the nation of Nigeria, as independence from colonial rule loomed near. In Obi Okonkwo's experiences, the ambiguities, p...
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

By: Albom, Mitch

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Broadway Books: October 2002

Seller ID: 100569

ISBN: 076790592X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved international bestseller that changed millions of lives

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and t...
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Voice in the Night

By: Andersen, C. Paul

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Covenant Communications: January 2006

Seller ID: 89696

ISBN: 1591568919

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nerilka's Story

By: Anne McCaffrey

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Del Rey Ballantine: February 1986

Seller ID: 91542

ISBN: 0345331591

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Remembering Isaac: The Wise and Joyful Potter of Niederbipp

By: Behunin, Ben

Price: $5.45

Publisher: Abendmahl Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 118763

ISBN: 0615276067

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jake Kimball is afraid he agreed too hastily to spend the summer working his way through the mess Isaac Bingham, the old potter-God rest his soul-left behing. As Jake begins his work in the old studio, he becomes aware of a unique collection of mugs hanging from an overhead beam. When friends of the old potter stop by to sip peppermint tea from these mugs and tell their stories, Jake begins to understand the remarkable man he has come to replace. With the help of his new friend Amy, Jake pieces together the secrets of life Isaac lived by and shared with all who knew him. Remembering Isaac cele...
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Quentins

By: Binchy, Maeve

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Dutton Adult: October 2002

Seller ID: 88674

ISBN: 0525946829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Maeve Binchy follows the enormous success of "Scarlet Feather" with a new book, "Quentins," that delivers the hallmark storytelling that has kept her millions of fans happy for more than twenty years.
Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. After all, the restaurant saw the people of a city become more confident in everything, from their lifestyles to the food that they chose to eat. And Quen...
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Whitethorn Woods

By: Binchy, Maeve

Price: $3.49

Publisher: Anchor Books: January 2008

Seller ID: 88678

ISBN: 0307278417

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

When a new highway threatens to bypass the town of Rossmore and cut through Whitethorn Woods, everyone has a passionate opinion about whether the town will benefit or suffer. But young Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann's Well, which is set at the edge of the woods and slated for destruction. People have been coming to St. Ann's for generations to share their dreams and fears, and speak their prayers. Some believe it to be a place of true spiritual power, demanding protection; others think it's a mere magnet for superstitions, easily sacrificed.
Father Flynn listens to...
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Friday Night Lights

By: Bissinger, H. G.

Price: $3.99

Publisher: Da Capo Press: September 2004

Seller ID: 88851

ISBN: 0306813742

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business.In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play ...
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The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $2.99

Publisher: Pocket Books: March 2005

Seller ID: 97775

ISBN: 1416500189

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution.... Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passion, its persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant novel beloved by millions of readers throughout the world is a universal tale of the destiny of men. This great modern classic depic...
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Thank You for Smoking: A Novel

By: Buckley, Christopher

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 2006

Seller ID: 95281

ISBN: 0812976525

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He's a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies-in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He's so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he's become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell yo...
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La invencin de Morel

By: Casares, Adolfo Bioy

Price: $4.29

Publisher: Penguin Books: November 1996

Seller ID: 91544

ISBN: 051488013006

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Body & Soul

By: Conroy, Frank

Price: $5.99

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: September 1993

Seller ID: 87487

ISBN: 0395519462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Beach Music

By: Conroy, Pat

Price: $5.49

Publisher: Doubleday: June 1995

Seller ID: 100050

ISBN: 0385413041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in "Beach Music," he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust.
"Beach Music" is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appea...
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The Divide

By: Evans, Nicholas

Price: $4.69

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons: September 2005

Seller ID: 88876

ISBN: 0399152067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now, from the number-one bestselling author of "The Horse Whisperer" comes an epic thriller of the human heart.
Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of a loving family so tragically as...
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The Letter (The Christmas Box Trilogy)

By: Evans, Richard Paul

Price: $4.99

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 1997

Seller ID: 69941

ISBN: 0684834723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"The Letter," the final book of the "Christmas Box" collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up, but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all time.

"The Letter" is also a...
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Under Orders (A Dick Francis Novel)

By: Francis, Dick

Price: $3.99

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: August 2007

Seller ID: 95695

ISBN: 0425217566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits-both on and off the track.
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Brothers

By: Goldman, William

Price: $1.79

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: March 1988

Seller ID: 95698

ISBN: 0446346802

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

James Herriot's Cat Stories

By: Herriot, James

Price: $5.49

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: September 1994

Seller ID: 107985

ISBN: 0312113420

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over: James Herriot's Cat Stories. Here are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas; Alfred, the cat at the sweet shop; little Emily, who lived with the gentleman tramp; and Olly and Ginny, the kittens who charmed readers when they first appeared at the Herriots' house in the worldwide bestseller Every Living Thing. And along with these come others, each story as memorable and heartwarming as the last, each told with that magica...
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